Infant Feeding Training
Level 2: Core Skills
About this course:
This course leads on from Level 1 and participants must have completed Level 1 before beginning Level 2.
Through a combination of video, text and a live (or recorded) workshop session we give a more in-depth overview of infant feeding. We cover topics needed to provide a basic level of support to families including alternatives to direct breast/chest feeding.
This course is ideal as a refresher for medical professionals and peer supporters, for doulas and those running antenatal education.
Pre requisites: Level 1
Length: 5 hrs
Format: Video, text, online workshop, discussion group
Language: English
Accessibility: Subtitles available for video
Assessment: Online multiple choice test
Price: TBC
Next start date: TBC
Brief Course Outline:
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An overview of how breasts make and deliver milk
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Human milk
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Newborn instinctive behaviours and infant feeding
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Positioning for breast and chest feeding
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Contingency planning
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Hand expressing
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Infant development in the context of infant feeding
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Common barriers including breast issues
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Expressing and human milk storage
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Safe and responsive bottle feeding and use of human milk substitutes